Description
A career as a Chief Functional Analyst in the Financial Markets IT Delivery team at National Bank means acting as a person who translates business needs into a functional product.
This role allows you to actively contribute to our organization through your analytical mind, your skills in functional documentation and your ability to understand a business need to transform it into a detailed order book for our software development teams.
Your job
- Understand business issues, identify and analyze the needs of customers and business partners, document requests and prepare recommendations to design or adapt systems that meet needs and facilitate decision-making
- Perform a variety of complex analyses, identify gaps, and make recommendations to optimize system efficiency and resolve important issues
- Analyze requests for changes in systems, assess impacts on existing applications, suggest and make appropriate changes.
- Establish validation and quality control procedures, based on established norms and development standards, and perform comprehensive testing to ensure that systems developed or modified are adequate
- Supporting partners in the development of requirements and challenging them
- Produce or participate in the realization of assessments of new needs (projects and evolving requests)
- Produce functional analyses and ensure that the delivered product corresponds to the functional analyses
- Participate in testing (test plan and sets, test execution and verification)
- Document requests, prepare recommendations, participate in updating documentation and meet architecture targets.
Our team
IT is more than 2,300 experts who work in an agile, proactive and collaborative manner to seize opportunities, stay on the cutting edge of technology and continuously improve processes.
You are part of the IT - Financial Markets team. Our team stands out for its collaboration, agility and willingness to continuously improve. You report to the IT Asset Manager.
We aim to offer you maximum flexibility to promote your quality of life. This is reflected in a hybrid work environment, as well as a flexible and adaptable schedule.
The Bank values continuous development and internal mobility. Our personalized training programs, based on learning in action, allow you to master your craft and develop new areas of expertise. Tools such as the Data Academy, language training, the Harvard Learning Center, and coaching and mentoring support are available to you at all times.
Prerequisites
- University degree related to the industry and several years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience in functional and technical analysis in the delivery of large-scale projects
- Experience with test scenarios and user support
- Knowledge of different types of financial products and their life cycles, particularly fixed income products.
- Ability to think strategically, with analytical, synthesizing, and communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and effective priority management
- Experience in agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and knowledge of Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.).
- Experience with the Bloomberg Terminal, an asset
- AWS Cloud knowledge, an asset
- Knowledge of SQL language to query a database required, data modeling, an asset
